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in agriculture, colts during thofe months of 

 the year when the growth of pafture is re- 

 ftrained, foals when wxaning, or in addition 

 to the keep of mares whofe foals are required 

 and permitted to run at the foot all the ^ujui^ 

 ter^ it is of equal utility, particularly to the 

 latter, whofe flow of milk it greatly enlarges 

 if given in fufficient quantities to promote 

 the advantage. 



CarPvOTs, the article thus highly com- 

 mended, after fair and impartial trial, is one 

 of the moft valuable in the vegetable w^orld, 

 and fo eafy of cultivation, that in a light 

 fandy foil no crop is fuppofed to produce a 

 greater fhare of emolument ; of this, certain 

 adventurers are fo well convinced, that the 

 very labourers in the north-weft parts oi the 

 county of Surrey, rent from the neighbour- 

 ing farmers a moiety of even the pooreft land 

 upon the \txgQ. of the barren heath, at the 

 exorbitant price of three and four pounds per 

 acre for the fummer feafon, only to produce 

 a fingle crop, when it is immxcdiatcly refigned 

 to the landlord for his izziow of wheat to 

 follow. 



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